Topic Lords

208. E.T. Shot First


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Lords:

  • Hallie
  • Tyriq
  • Topics:

    • People really like potatoes and I don't get it
    • I wear shorts now.
    • Why are these ants on my desk?
    • The go-getters of predawn gym
    • Non feathered dinosaurs in the public imagination
      • Esper says: Magic: the Gathering does have feathered dinosaurs as part of its mesoamerican-inspired setting, which look cool as hell. Not all of them are completely covered or anything, but Gishath is a good example of how to make a dinosaur look really intimidating and powerful while still having feathers. https://scryfall.com/card/xln/222/gishath-suns-avatar
      • McPop
      • Microtopics:

        • Not counting the Zelda game you made.
        • Mashing up the hummus beans.
        • Tahini texture.
        • Garbanzo merengue.
        • Cutting-edge vegan technology.
        • Making video games until you learn better.
        • The freezer popsicle that's just a tube of flavored water.
        • Potato struggle sessions.
        • Curly fries versus seasoned curly fries.
        • A waste of a hearty food that should last longer.
        • Century potatoes.
        • Burying a potato in the ground and setting a peat bog on fire.
        • Taro chips.
        • The bag in the grocery store that says "veggie sticks" and there's a picture of fresh vegetables on the bag but inside it's just potato slurry fried into stick form.
        • Anti-shorts positions.
        • A tattoo in a conspicuous place.
        • Showing up to a game jam in a Voldo harness.
        • A tattoo that makes it look like you've been scratching a rash.
        • Getting a cool tattoo and starting going to the gym because you want to be worthy of the tattoo.
        • A slovenly dude in a fedora getting a sick tattoo of a slovenly dude in a fedora.
        • Yakuza style tattoos except it's all video game shit.
        • Leaving an olive under your desk.
        • What the ants are into lately.
        • House Ants.
        • Storehouses of finger dust.
        • Letting the ants have the olive.
        • Mice with an exoskeleton.
        • Sitting on a toilet made of ants and instantly becoming one with the ants.
        • A bottle of Ginger Ants.
        • Extremely tangy abyss.
        • What is in my mouth? What is in my bed?
        • Rolling a ball of goo over your keyboard.
        • Finding some good goo and keeping it to yourself.
        • The validity of shipping yourself with things.
        • Merging your cats.
        • Motivated brothers.
        • Waking up at 5:30 to go to the gym.
        • Go-gettitude.
        • Chronotypes.
        • Expressing all the aspirational aspects of yourself.
        • The only person flexing in the mirrors.
        • Why is this young teen here so early?
        • Pretty ripped. (For a child.)
        • Giving up on waking up before dawn and becoming the kind of go-getter who gets later things.
        • Reconstructing dinosaurs based on what people think they should look like.
        • Semi-mythical creatures. (That actually existed.)
        • Microraptors that are slightly melty.
        • 65, with Adam Driver.
        • An interesting concept, executed poorly.
        • The Pepsisaur.
        • Adam Driver running away from horny dudes crawling around in mocap suits and the test audiences hate it so they CGI in some horny humanoid dinosaurs.
        • Having kids and patching ET so the government agents don't have guns and then after your kids grow up, patching ET so they have extra guns.
        • Twelve gauge flashlights.
        • Lemmings but with babies.
        • One of each type of eye.
        • Eyes that are so human looking that it kind of fucks you up.
        • A reverse The Fly situation.
        • McPopHouse.
        • The Junta of Tralfaz.
        • Picking up a new key and trying it on every locked door you've ever seen.
        • Pressing insert to empty your sexual tension meter.
        • Back before Microsoft Word owned the .doc extension.
        • A hoary pld PD Turbo 3.0 include file circa 1985.
        • Sentences from shareware documentation that have been in your head for 30 years.
        • BBS Doors.
        • Legend of the Red Dragon.
        • Reprising your role as Olmec.
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